the colonies
Somewhat archaic/patronising yet affectionate term used in the UK for the white dominions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand.
the colonies by Colonialist August 7, 2006
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selling out the colonies
Q. What have you been up to?
A. Oh, the usual: traveling the world, having meaningless sex with strangers, partaking of champagne and baby seal every night and otherwise selling out the colonies...
A. Oh, the usual: traveling the world, having meaningless sex with strangers, partaking of champagne and baby seal every night and otherwise selling out the colonies...
selling out the colonies by shirtliftah April 28, 2010
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fogey
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You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
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